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The house is watched, Master Shelton," returned the outlaw. "We are not
alone to watch it; for even as I lay on my belly on the wall I saw men
prowling in the dark, and heard them whistle softly one to the other."
"By my sooth," said Dick, "but this is passing strange! Were they not
men of Sir Daniel's?"
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Nay, sir, that they were not," returned Greensheve; "for if I have eyes
in my head, every man-Jack of them weareth me a white badge in his
bonnet, something chequered with dark."
"White, chequered with dark," repeated Dick. "Faith, 'tis a badge I know
not. It is none of this country's badges. Well, an that be so, let us
slip as quietly forth from this garden as we may; for here we are in an
evil posture for defence. Beyond all question there are men of Sir
Daniel's in that house, and to be taken between two shots is a
beggarman's position. Take me this ladder; I must leave it where I found
it."
They returned the ladder to the stable, and groped their way to the place
where they had entered.
Capper had taken Greensheve's position on the cope, and now he leaned
down his hand, and, first one and then the other, pulled them up.
Cautiously and silently, they dropped again upon the other side; nor did
they dare to speak until they had returned to their old ambush in the
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